Crops are at risk in a changing climate. Farmers in the developing world will be able to insure against harvest failure if robust insurance packages, based on a geophysical index rather than individual loss, become widely available.
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Brown, M., Osgood, D. & Carriquiry, M. Science-based insurance. Nature Geosci 4, 213–214 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1117
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